NO MORE TBH!

Writing tbh is the second bullshit activity in social media, which I am taking a permanent break from now onwards. Please don't involve me in activities like these, in any way. The reason for this decision is very simple. People who are mature enough will always know what I feel about them, no matter how I behave. Writing a paragraph for them does not make sense. I admit that it might make some people feel really special, but the dark side of this fun is the fact that sometimes people's feelings, and the paragraph which they have written, does not seem to be able to establish any connection at all, and that's what totally ruins the fun. Well, to be frank, I had been an active participant of this ritual, for a long time, and I totally understand that this sudden change in mind seems pretty strange. The reason for that, is the fact that as a human being, I am growing everyday, or rather to be more precise, every moment. While my physical growth is quite noticeable by people, the eternal growth is something, which isn't discovered by a lot of people until they actually interact with me. So basically life has given me the bitterest taste of this ritual, which has left me with no other choice, than to strike of my name from the list of people, performing this ritual. Hoping you guys to understand and cooperate with me.

A REQUEST TO MAINTAIN PRIVACY WITH MY PHONE NUMBER

For those of you with whom I've shared my number, I request not to share it with anyone, without my notice. I had changed my number almost a year ago, due to various privacy issues. I had shared my new number with some specific people, who actually mattered to me, and with the ones, with whom I thought I won’t have to regret for sharing. If you’re one among that list, you know it pretty well, that this number has been registered on WhatsApp, which when shared with wrong people, breaches my privacy, even more. The previous year, when I had changed my number and shared my new number, I had requested not to share it with anyone, although it was shared by some of you unintentionally. I would have been all fine with sharing my number if the relay ritual wasn’t followed after that. I mean, I share it with a person I trust, but it ends up reaching a masked guy, who intends to hurt me. I remember when I got my first number registered, a few years back. I had shared it like a fool, literally everywhere, and to be honest, I had to regret it for a long time, until I got my number switched. So basically, I don’t want to experience that moment of regret again. Now it's up to you, whether you want to accept it as a part of my maturity, or you consider it a rude way of isolating oneself. Also, I have a request for my WhatsApp contacts. Please don’t add me to any groups, without my knowledge, no matter what the reason is. It's not just because my WhatsApp has a way more professional use, than you may ever imagine, but also because of the privacy breach issue. The one who is a rose to you might be a thorn to me, and you never know when I’m going to get pricked by them. Also, you know that it is a fact that when you’re a member of a pretty active group, you receive way more messages, as compared to your usual one to one conversation chats, and to be very frank, I am still not used to reading hundreds of messages, at the end of every single day. That might seem rude, but at the moment of writing this, I find no alternate way of sharing this with you. I’ve just added myself to a few groups, where I feel safe and do not have to bother about privacy. At last, I would like to conclude by saying that I never intend to talk so strictly with anyone, but when it comes to my privacy, I do not have any other option than to get a bit serious. Hope you guys understand and cooperate with me.

WAS MY INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT HACKED?

Well, before narrating the entire drama, let me make it clear for you guys. My Instagram account is NOT HACKED, technically. I posted those stories and the tweet, out of sarcasm.

Basically, day before yesterday, i.e., on the evening of 23rd May, I was going through my Instagram feed, and there I found many of my friends posting stories, where their account name is changed to some food items. Upon inquiry, I realized that it was a prank going on, where the victim is asked to change his account name to the name his favorite food item, and he needs to do it twice. Like, at first, he needs to write the name of the food item in capital letters, and then in small, and send screenshots of both to the person who had sent the prank. So basically, like every ordinary user, I did the same, but later on when I tried changing my account name back to my original name, it did not work, because as per the latest policies of Instagram, if an user changes his name twice in a single day, he is restricted from changing it further, for 14 days. I left no stone unturned, like I tried sending a bug report to Instagram, changing my date and time, in my phone’s settings, but nothing worked. Even all the videos on YouTube, claiming that I’ll be able to change my name before 14 days, were fake.

At this point, I was rather worried and depressed, which made me temporarily deactivate my account for a day. Most of you'll probably know that I post literary content a lot in my profile, and I am a member of several writing pages and writing communities, where I am identified by my account name, and not primarily the username. So, I guess, due to this, I won't be able to upload my writeups and such content for 14 days, because my account can be considered as a fake account, due to the changed name. Due to that reason, I am also restricted from changing my username, as per my desire.

There was another reason behind the temporary deactivation of my account, and it was the fact that I was not much satisfied with my life in social media. Also, I had been anxious, because I had been spending a lot of time unproductively, in this platform, which impacted my productivity by a huge margin, and made me a great procrastinator, so I thought of taking a break. I had tried several methods earlier, like setting limits of my usage each day, logging off the accounts, when I am not using them, but none of them actually worked out.

At that moment, I did not have the polite sentences, to explain my problem, so it made me even more depressed within. Also, while I’m speaking about depression, let me tell you’ll that during this lockdown period, I’ve developed a new peccadillo of getting depressed very easily, without any logical reason, so that was also one of the reasons of the temporary deactivation of my account. Also, that day, after a long time, I finally had a haircut, and I was kinda unsatisfied with the haircut, which added further to my depression. I felt so because due to the bad haircut, I could not shoot my guitar cover videos.

Well, to sum things up, I would like to say that my account isn’t an ordinary personal account, rather it is a creator’s account. And I use this platform, rather in a professional and formal way, rather than like an ordinary social media platform. So I would request my friends not to prank me with stuffs, which messes with my account. Previously, I used to own multiple accounts, but after realizing that it isn’t a piece of cake to manage multiple accounts, I had to switch to a single account with diverse content, instead. Also, I would like to conclude by saying that I am not beckoning anyone personally, rather I am trying to clarify the myth about my Instagram account hack update.

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